Research Areas & Presentations Order

Originally written on February 22, 2018 by dp9
Last modified on March 29, 2018 by Jiyao Zhang

March 1:

Laura – Control (ownership & regulation) of media and communications tools (Range of tools/differences among them? Good idea for more or less regulation? How easy is it to circumvent regulation? Who are the regulators and what are the structures they take?)

Jeff – Political trends around the world and the psychology of political affiliation

Luqian – The trends in the job market – What kinds of skills/educations are valued most in different countries (common jobs; highest salaries;)
– How automation and AI impact job market
– What had happened in the past? What could we learn from past?
– The trend of the frequency of job changing.

Alden – Algorithmic Decision Making in Bureaucracy, Public Policy, and the City

Kai :How ideal personal me changes & What is meaningful?Brief SummarySlide
How many and why people turn to a life of pure personal meaning perusing? (like work as a full time artist) | Does it happen more? | The transformation of meaningful in 30 years | How money spend on this kind of consumption? | new form of communication, size of meaningful industry | Does it increase or decrease of nihilism? | the other side of pursuing meaningful life: rates of addiction, suicide, depression, use of drugs (prescription or illegal), as well as mass shootings, conversion to terrorism | Look into hikikomori

M.H. : Role of Traditional Gender Roles in the New World
What are traditional roles? | Why are we tempered the way we are? | Biology/Society, Nature/Nurture, How much are we in control? | Do we have radical deviations that turned out for the better? | How long is long enough for us to figure things out? | How are places with switched roles doing?